Tag: rain

By Corissa Haury “Mom?” I call throughout the house. She doesn’t answer the usual, “I’m home!” I call out when I return from my best friend’s house in the evening. Over the water, the sun is setting, and I knew she would be cooking up dinner. That is, she usually is cooking up dinner around this time. I look at my watch. 5:57. Where…

by Corissa Haury My sister and I wander amongst the veterans’ graves on a rainy day in May. The cemetery is bigger than I had originally thought; so much so that we will get lost on the way out, but I don’t know it yet. We are making a sort of pilgrimage towards a World War II monument. We won’t see it is…

~ corissa e. p., may eighth, twenty-thirteen a.d. dedicated to l. percer, because she loves new england. watch the downpour coming onward trudging forward, never fading watch the droplets turn to streams that join to rivers, glass windows skating watch through windows, people run ever fleeing as thunder breaks see the lightning, bright as sun hear the roaring crash…